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Presents the people of the Sung dynasty in everyday activities in old Cathay through the use of a photographic representation of a famous Chinese art scroll. Uses music and narration to bring the content of the scroll to life.
Reveals the activities, customs, and traditions of the Watussi, an African people characterized by their advanced culture. Shows the ruling prince and royal family and activities in the royal household, including weaving, decorating, cooking, and churning. Portrays the prince as he inspects his cattle and leads a hunt, and depicts his young son presiding over a ceremonial dance.
Uses animation and illustration to show how children learn oral communication and to demonstrate the process involved in learning how to talk. Pictures children who exemplify oral communication problems because of hearing difficulty, cleft palate, cerebral palsy, articulation problems, and stuttering. Factors involved in specific disorders are clarified and procedures used to aid the child and his parents in a rehabilitation or therapy program are illustrated and discussed in non-technical terms.
Discusses in detail the most common types of abortion procedures, aimed particularly at the woman who has already made the decision to have an abortion. Focuses on the need for post-abortion follow-up with the doctor, especially for contraceptive advice.
Examines the controversial issue of abortion with an in-depth look at abortion clinics and women making abortion decisions. Considers the psychological and physical ramifications associated with abortion. Closed Captioned.
Shows the teacher-training school established by the British government at Achimota, on the Gold Coast of Africa. Describes student life, which is organized cooperatively, academic activities, the instructional staff, the emphasis on practical arts, extracurricular activities, and future responsibilities of the students.
Defines mollusks and tells how classes are named, and pictures examples of each class and illustrates how the general form of mollusks is adapted in various species. Relates how mollusks reproduce and tells of their value to man. Shows the following mollusks: chitons, snails, a squid, clam, oysters, tooth shells, the octopus, and the nautilus.
Explains the theory, advantages, limitations, and administration of projective tests including the thematic apperception, word association, sentence completion, free-drawing, and the Szondi tests. Shows a subject taking the tests, while an examiner explains and summarizes the procedures. Concludes by asking questions on the procedures employed.
Shows night classes and activities attended by adults at Bryant School, Woodside, Long Island. Arts and crafts, mathematics classes, shop courses, and other activities are pictured. Students in a public-speaking class describe the benefits of adult education.
Shows such leisure-time pursuits as bowling, swimming, dancing, sketching, sewing, and carpentry available to workers during World War II. Pictures study groups and recreation at a Workers' Educational Association summer school, and points the way to peacetime use of leisure time.
Surveys Alaska, the 49th state, showing its size, location, industries, people, natural resources, climate, cities, typography, and history. Shows the three main geographic regions of the state and what life is like in each. The leading natural resources of timber, fishing, minerals, and scenery are discussed. A variety of animals are shown in their native habitats. Stresses the importance of air travel in Alaska and views the "Dew Line" radar installations.
In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman outlines probation as a special alternative to the criminal-making influences of the prison system, stating that probation can effectively replace detention; although it is considered in the public mind as a form of leniency and improperly administered it becomes “beating the rap.” Two men with criminal experience are interviewed to illustrate this alternative. Meeker and Lohman delve into the necessary requirements to make probation an instrument for controlling criminal behavior and if its potentialities for reclaiming those who have strayed outside the social role are to be used to the fullest extent.
Presents a brief history of the development of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. Shows through animation the occupation of the land by the Sumerians, Semites, Babylonians, and Assyrians, and illustrates their contributions such as the wheel, a code of laws, the arch, a system of writing, military science, and astronomy.
Shows some of the animals that are found in each of four environments--deciduous forest, evergreen forest, desert, and arctic tundra. Presents the habitats of such animals as sidewinder snake, timber rattlesnake, white-tailed deer, beaver, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, bison, chipmunk, marten, black bear, and bighorn sheep.
Consisting of 13 programs, the World of Art series, hosted by Joseph Fitzpatrick, is designed to give a brief historical background of the various art expressions and their influences upon contemporary art. In this program, Mr. Fitzpatrick discusses the role of animals in artistic expression. Shows drawings of animals by ancient man to illustrate various designs. Describes the significance of cave drawings of an ice aged man. Explains the use of simple tools and materials. Demonstrates the drawing of an animal using various interpretations from the real to the abstract. Illustrates with examples of painting and sculpture.
The conversation in this program centers around Larkin’s book as something new –an attempt to trace the history of American ideas through America’s architecture, painting and sculpture. In recent years, our conversationalists point out historians have been increasingly interested in looking over the American past to discover the origin and development of a climate of ideas that makes the United States unique. But this is the first time such an attempt has been made on such a large scale by a man whose training and background are in the arts.
Surveys styles of painting and sculpture from the 13th to the 20th centuries as found in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Opens with Byzantine and early Italian painting and explains the gradual development of realism during the Renaissance. Shows the work of European masters of later centuries and gives representative views of American painting.
Surveys the size, composition, and location of asteroids, comets, and meteorites and the means used to investigate them. The discovery of asteroids in 1801 by Piazzi, their place in the solar system, and their variations in size and shape are recounted. Halley's study of comets, the nature of the composition of comets, and the size of their orbit are highlighted. Meteorites are discussed as remnants of comets; and the use of radar and photography in counting them along with the variations in their sizes is indicated.
Employs animation and live photography to present a series of examples demonstrating axioms as statements accepted as true without proof and applies these axioms to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Shows how the root of each equation can be used to check solutions and uses an equal arm balance to illustrate that what is done to one side of an equation must be done to the other. Concludes with a problem the solution of which requires the viewer to select correct axioms.